Choice Verses Obligation!

Today, more than ever, Jews are confronted with choice versus obligation. Through their actions, they can choose mediocrity or greatness. These choices and obligations depend on the individual and the collective; their outcomes rest with the Jew and the Jewish people. Since 1948, these choices and obligations have become a stark reality for the Jewish nation.

Many Jews choose to ignore the choices put before them while the Land of Israel demands obligation. These Jews prefer mediocrity over greatness, leaving no footprint in the sands of time. They prefer to be like the nations desperately holding onto the Exile with its empty values. Failing to grasp their destiny, they choose to be ordinary.

On the other hand, there is the Jew who understands the obligation set before him and the true nature of his greatness. All he has to do is choose to embrace the obligation to ‘come home’ to the Land of Israel, participate wholeheartedly in its rebuilding, and conquer the Land. Having done so, they will have become a ‘Light unto the Nations’ and a beacon of truth for all peoples.

The door is open! The choice is yours…!

Yosef Yigal Drever

Yosef Yigal Drever and Sylvia Drever co-founded Achdut HaLev in 2006 to reach out to the Jewish community's around the world providing support in learning Torah and promoting the 'Return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel.' Yosef Yigal made Aliya in 2014 while Sylvia his wife is an Israeli. In late 2014 Achdut HaLev concentrated all its resources towards Aliya and the rebuilding of Eretz Yisrael. Excluding none and embracing all. The commandment to settle the Land of Israel is equal in importance to all the Torah Commandments all together: (Sifri Deut 12:29)